MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Carbon Goodies on July 27, 2014, 01:31:51 am

Title: No external aerial
Post by: Carbon Goodies on July 27, 2014, 01:31:51 am
My car has no external aerial but the radio reception is very good.

Does anybody know if I have one but installed somewhere else?

Mine is the only one I've ever noticed which doesn't have an external aerial.

Cheers

Rick
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: v4rley on July 27, 2014, 02:41:25 am
One of the benefits of an early model before vw did some cost cutting  :grin: your aerial like mine is built into the tailgate glass. When I first got mine I was considering buying a stubby aerial, when I went outside to see what was currently fitted i realised I didn't have one  :signLOL:
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: Stevepd on July 27, 2014, 06:39:07 am
Mine also doesn't have one, there's bound to be a few on here....
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: Carbon Goodies on July 27, 2014, 07:45:23 am
I've no doubt there are plenty more, I've just never noticed any others.

I'll check the rear window then :-)
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: J400uk on July 27, 2014, 09:36:20 am
Yeah it was a 2006 cost cutting change reverting  back to the external aerial. They then made a u-turn with the Mk6 which shares the same setup as the early Mk5s with the aerial built into the rear screen
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: Viking on July 27, 2014, 09:59:38 am
And all the Jetta models have the rear screen aerial.  :jumping:
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: Andy on July 27, 2014, 10:10:33 am
as stated the early models didn't have a aerial and they look better without them
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: Carbon Goodies on July 29, 2014, 07:26:43 pm
One of the benefits of an early model before vw did some cost cutting  :grin: your aerial like mine is built into the tailgate glass. When I first got mine I was considering buying a stubby aerial, when I went outside to see what was currently fitted i realised I didn't have one  :signLOL:

What exactly does it look like? I've just had a quick look at my rear window and I can't see anything which looks like an aerial. Does it look like the demisting wires?
Title: Re: No external aerial
Post by: v4rley on July 29, 2014, 07:37:45 pm
^^^ believe it built into the rear glass. Have a search about bit about it here:

http://www.r32oc.com/topic/45281-mk5-gti-no-roof-aerial/